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This was a film I wanted to see when it originally hit cinemas in 2022, but it wasn't showing anywhere nearby. Four years after its initial release, I got to see it on TV tonight, and I'm so glad I did. It had a few different themes in, and I found all of them relevant and thought-provoking. I wasn't familiar with any of the actors, but they all knocked it out of the park for me. The initial premise of the film is following a group of historical warrior women called the Agojie in The Kingdom of Dahomey. We see young girls trained to become fierce fighters, slavery, colonisation, temptations, defiance, secrets, and trauma. But the one thing most characters have in common is strength. I feel so proud of those women for all that they achieved and endured. It makes for a genuinely empowering watch, perhaps in part for the catharsis it provided.

Please share your thoughts and experiences with this film or any other women focused media you have seen recently. We need more ferocious films like this.

I figured we could gather and confess our recent chaotic impulses about daft things. I just saw a 7.5kg* bag of potatoes on a very good deal. The reason I didn't buy them was because I don't want to die from extreme potato exposure, having to eat them all myself. Lmao.

*16.5lbs

I made myself laugh today as I was walking behind a couple. I got irritated on her behalf as he sidled over to her, put his arm around her, then started trying to kiss her. I felt so disgusted, it was ridiculous. My brain was acting like he was doing that to me! Lmao. The part that hit me later was realising I'm in my ovulation phase, where I sometimes notice men (my eyes occasionally dart in their direction without consulting my brain first). I wonder if even my hormones are becoming anti-men, which would be glorious. I was a romantic and affectionate person, but perhaps that is now changing. Usually, that behaviour wouldn't have bothered me, so to have such a viseral reaction was both wild and personally entertaining. What thoughts or actions have you either consciously or unconsciously changed since becoming 4b?